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Outlook Darker as Jobs Are Lost view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04...)
- Became popular about 8 hours ago
The unemployment rate held steady as 62,000 jobs disappeared in June, the Labor Department reported.
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Is Europe Repainting Its Nazi Past? view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
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- Became popular about 9 hours ago
Deeply, deeply disturbing.
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How to Lower Oil Prices Now and in the Future view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.americanthinker.com/20...)
- Became popular about 18 hours ago
Subsidizing "alternative energy" isn't an "investment" if the govt does it; because it has no fiscal responsibility, the govt spends; it doesn't invest. In addition, the mobility provided by individual transportation is a key element in the prosperity of
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The Imprecise Meaning of War view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03...)
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Companies ripping off taxpayers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may never be fully prosecuted unless Congress does more to go after war profiteers.
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Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
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Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenom
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Modern World Has Robbed Us of the Simple Joys in Life view details
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/archi...)
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Do we really have no choice but to become prisoners of a culture that robs us. It all sounds so achingly obvious. Our houses are too big, our jobs are too far away and our neighbors are strangers.
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French Students Tortured and Stabbed 250 times in Tarantino-Style Raid on London Home| view details
2 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/new...)
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Two high-flying French exchange students found dead in their burnt-out flat in Britain were tied up and horrifically murdered in a 'Tarantino-style' attack. Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, who were on three-month placements at Imperial College, Londo
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Charlotte North Carolina: Temperature Hits 123-Year Low view details
2 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.charlotte.com/news/sto...)
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This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region -- cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century. extra description
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The Floating Cities That Could One Day House Climate Change Refugees view details
2 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/scienc...)
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An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels - a city that floats around the world. The self-contained 'Lilypad' city will be home to 50,000 'climate refugees' from worst hit areas - including London.
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Plasma, LCDs Blamed for Accelerating Global Warming view details
2 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.abc.net.au/news/storie...)
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A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD
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